EFFECTIVE ECOLOGY

Seeking Success in a Hard Science

 

 

Roger D Cousens

with

Mark R T Dale, Alkistis Elliott-Graves, Michael J Keough, Gerry P Quinn, Joshua I Brian, Jane A Catford, Jannice Friedman, Alyson C Van Natto, Bruce L Webber, Daniel Z Atwater, Maria Paniw, Chris M Baker, Thao P Le, Marc W. Cadotte and Françoise Cardou

 

 

Note: This book has been published by Taylor & Francis/CRC. The online version of this book is free to read here (thanks to Taylor & Francis/CRC), and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

 

 

‘The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.’ Claude Lévi-Strauss

 

‘Without questions there are no answers. And without answers no truth, no progress, no future.’ Victor Canning

 

The elevation of ecology beyond the delivery of plausible answers to mundane matters depends on challenging accepted wisdom, defining crucial questions and delivering inspired solutions. Critique – of ourselves and of others – needs to be central to that process.